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- Sun Jan 15, 2017 11:17 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Matter of the Bullet Cluster (2017 Jan 15)
- Replies: 20
- Views: 4483
Re: APOD: The Matter of the Bullet Cluster (2017 Jan 15)
And because I am a complete amateur in all other fields of astronomy, I gain my knowledge from listening to the professionals. I conclude that those that hold the majority opinion among the experts are more likely to be correct than those that hold the minority opinion. That is because I know that ...
- Tue Jan 03, 2017 4:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Pandora Close-up at Saturn (2017 Jan 03)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3742
Re: APOD: Pandora Close-up at Saturn (2017 Jan 03)
I think that these types of photos raise more questions then they answer, 40,000 km is simply too far.
- Wed Dec 21, 2016 11:54 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Traces of the Sun (2016 Dec 21)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 10485
Re: APOD: Traces of the Sun (2016 Dec 21)
The rejection of an establishment is actually proof of a strong democracy, unless you're opposed to change of course.RedFishBlueFish wrote:In this century, unlike the last, the light of democracy seems to be flickering in the United States of America as well.
- Sun Dec 04, 2016 11:33 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Orion and Official Star Names (2016 Dec 04)
- Replies: 62
- Views: 12881
Re: APOD: Orion and Official Star Names (2016 Dec 04)
Lots of APODs get repeated.RedGargoyle wrote:Today's picture is great but appeared already on 16.03.2015.
- Mon Nov 14, 2016 11:56 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Super Moon vs. Micro Moon (2016 Nov 13)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3505
Re: APOD: Super Moon vs. Micro Moon (2016 Nov 13)
For purely human psychological reasons (not understood) any full moon looks much bigger near the horizon than it does high in the sky. About the moon illusion... is it not simply the case that when near the horizon the moonlight is refracted by passing through a greater quantity of atmosphere, and ...
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 11:03 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Super Moon vs. Micro Moon (2016 Nov 13)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3505
Re: APOD: Super Moon vs. Micro Moon (2016 Nov 13)
For purely human psychological reasons (not understood) any full moon looks much bigger near the horizon than it does high in the sky. About the moon illusion... is it not simply the case that when near the horizon the moonlight is refracted by passing through a greater quantity of atmosphere, and ...
- Sat Oct 29, 2016 12:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Moonset at Whitby Abbey (2016 Oct 29)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3354
Re: APOD: Moonset at Whitby Abbey (2016 Oct 29)
It has always surprised me how poor and anti-climactic the ending to Dracula actually is, as if Stoker was rushing to finish the novel before his in-laws came to visit.
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 1:24 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Light at the End of the Road (2016 Sep 01)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2762
Re: APOD: Light at the End of the Road (2016 Sep 01)
It happened to be Morehead's traditional XMAS program where they demonstrated how the Star of Bethlehem might have been a close conjunction between Jupiter and Venus (near Regulus) on June 17, 2 BC. However, " since the conjunction would have been seen in the west at sunset [as in today's APOD...
- Sat Aug 27, 2016 11:26 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Lunar Orbiter Earthset (2016 Aug 27)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2032
Re: APOD: Lunar Orbiter Earthset (2016 Aug 27)
Okay if you say so....
- Thu Aug 25, 2016 9:36 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
- Replies: 56
- Views: 15316
Re: APOD: Closest Star has Potentially Planet... (2016 Aug 25)
If its 'only' 4.25 light years distant, and a probe like say New Horizons (Pluto) were sent out to it, at a reported speed of ~50,000 mph (?) then a quick back of the stamp calculation says it would take ~ 4000+ years to get there Sorry RocketRon, 50000 mph is half a billion miles per year. Proxima...
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 10:21 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Meteor before Galaxy (2016 Aug 17)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14492
Re: APOD: Meteor before Galaxy (2016 Aug 17)
omg what a brilliant image.
- Fri Jul 01, 2016 10:39 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Juno Approaching Jupiter (2016 Jul 01)
- Replies: 47
- Views: 11115
Re: APOD: Juno Approaching Jupiter (2016 Jul 01)
When I hold my iphone at the eyepiece I get better photos than this!
- Thu Jun 16, 2016 11:23 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: GW151226: A Second Confirmed Source ... (2016 Jun 15)
- Replies: 51
- Views: 11180
Re: APOD: GW151226: A Second Confirmed Source ... (2016 Jun 15)
The naming convention for these events is annoying; GW151226 follows the American dating format but that is confusing to Europeans who would use 261215 - these are discoveries for mankind and not just Americans.
- Wed Apr 27, 2016 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Omega Centauri: The Brightest Star... (2016 Apr 27)
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4757
Re: APOD: Omega Centauri: The Brightest Star... (2016 Apr 27)
I did not think that the measurements to astronomical objects lacked so much precision. Yes indeed, even the estimated distance to the great searchlight Deneb ranges from ~1400LY to 3,000 LY. So we don't know if the light left it after the end of the Roman Empire or just when they were putting the ...
- Thu Apr 21, 2016 4:26 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Comet, the Owl, and the Galaxy (2016 Apr 21)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2582
Re: APOD: The Comet, the Owl, and the Galaxy (2016 Apr 21)
Boy, they're really coming out of the woodwork today...
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
- Replies: 115
- Views: 31399
Re: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
Peter Higgs might disagree.Ann wrote: The Nobel Prize committee are known for waiting a long time before they award the prize to the person(s) behind a breakthrough discovery.
- Fri Feb 12, 2016 12:07 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
- Replies: 115
- Views: 31399
Re: APOD: LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves (2016 Feb 11)
LONG LIVE ALBERT!!! Hope he gets a Nobel Prize....He certainly deserves it. The next prize in physics should go to Thorne, Drever, and Weiss. Anything else would devalue the Physics prize as much as the nomination of Trump for the Peace Prize devalued it. Ever since it was given to three (!) left-w...
- Tue Feb 09, 2016 11:34 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The Rise and Fall of Supernova 2015F (2016 Feb 09)
- Replies: 28
- Views: 14734
Re: APOD: The Rise and Fall of Supernova 2015F (2016 Feb 09)
The link for an 'even brighter supernova' doesn't seem to be working.
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:02 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: The View Toward M101 (2016 Jan 21)
- Replies: 33
- Views: 15627
Re: APOD: The View Toward M101 (2016 Jan 21)
Nope, the consensus seems to be 27 million LY and not 21 million.
- Fri Jan 15, 2016 8:08 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Wright Mons in Color (2016 Jan 15)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5073
Re: A bushel & a peck & a chain around the neck.
Considering that the $$$ expended went to buy materials and pay salaries of those involved in development and construction of the probe, the $$$ aren't lost per se, they are still in circulation here. The only investment that could even be considered as Lost is the time spent. So if you wreck your ...
- Fri Dec 25, 2015 11:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: To Scale: The Solar System (2015 Dec 25)
- Replies: 45
- Views: 12997
Re: APOD: To Scale: The Solar System (2015 Dec 25)
Gravity is an extremely weak force, and it is the product of a distortion of spacetime by mass. A distortion that precisely explains the behavior of those "little specks of matter". Hmmm or maybe the distortion describes the behaviour of matter rather than explains it. The juxtaposition o...
- Mon Nov 02, 2015 11:18 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun (2015 Nov 02)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3471
Re: APOD: Comet ISON Being Destroyed by the Sun (2015 Nov 02)
3857 appears to be the number of "Comets Discovered " through the MPC Yes maybe they just haven't got round to cataloging all the Soho discoveries - Here's a list of Last Observation dates: http://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/LastCometObs.html and an historical list, including hund...